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I Letters Patent 1V0. 77,418, dated April 28, 1868.

IMPROVED ROOFING-CEMENT.

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TO ALL wHon IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, NEWToN TROWBRIDGE and EDWARD RICHARDSON, of Tully,ie the county of Onondaga, and State of New'Yorli, have invented a. flewand useful Improirementiu Roofing-Cement; and we do hereby declare thatthe following is a. full, elem, and exact description of the mode ofCompounding and preparing the some.

Take of crude India rubber, eight pounds; of resin, fort; pounds; ofcrude petroleum, one gallon, and melt them together over a slow fireuntil all the ingredients are dissolved.

Then add one hundred and twenty pounds of rosin, three gallons of crudepetroleuln and half a pound of sulphur; melt them and mix thoroughly.When this has been done, add one peek of water-lime, and two andthree-fourths bushels of dry sand. I

The roof should he covered with a. light pasteboard, which may hesaturated in petroleum hei'ore beinglaid. Then apply the above compoundwith a stifi' brush or float.

The pestehoard is not, however, an essential part of the roofing, forthe same composition may be applied to tin, sheet iron, or wood. Thecomposition mnjr also be used for lnying sidewalks.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The composition, compounded from the ingredients, and in the mannersubstantially as and for the purpose set forth. v

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses. I Y

NEWTON TROWBRIDGE, EDWARD RICHARDSON.

Witnesses:

Jonson S. WRIGHT, GONE WILLIAMS.

